Please note that this extension is provided as is. It is recommended to always backup your installation prior to use.

Overview

Optimizely

The Optimizely extension was built by Blue Acorn, in a collaborative effort between Optimizely and Blue Acorn to make the integration between the world's leading eCommerce platform and the world's leading conversion optimization software even easier and feature rich.

With Optimizely, you can track engagement, clicks, conversions, sign ups, or anything else that matters to you and your business. Optimizely's custom goal tracking provides an endless range of measurable actions that you can define. Just tell Optimizely what to measure, and it will do the rest.

Once downloaded from the Magento Connect marketplace - a matter of clicks - the module automatically inserts the necessary script for Optimizely into every page of the user's site. It has been designed to insert the script as high as possible in the header tag, in order to prevent any interference with Google Analytics.

In addition to making Optimizely easier to install, the module also allows Magento users to take advantage of two key features that were previously only achievable through custom development work: revenue tracking and the ability to run advanced targeting tests.

The extension is free, and you can try Optimizely at no cost for the first 30 days. After that, plans start at $19/month. Please visit Optimizely.com for more details.

Stable release. Has been tested for bugs, compatibility, and performance on Magento Community Edition 1.6+ and Magento Enterprise Edition 1.11+. This extension has been tested in a live environment, but as always please leave feedback if you run into any issues.

Reviews

About the Developer

Great Extension
I had installed optimizely by dropping the code snippit in the head.phtml file in the page folder of my active template, but was searching for the appropriate code to make tracking revenue work. This module installed in a matter of seconds and I copied and pasted the code into the back end and it was up and running. Very helpful and takes all of the guess work out of getting optimizely set up.
August 30, 2013

Can you either verify for me that it will work on 5.4.25, or confirm that it won't? If it will not, can you also include a little bit of information as to what changes between PHP versions caused problems? I'll see if I can't update it by hand so it works...

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Thanks for writing in! Yes, currently the module is verified to work on versions of PHP from 5.1.0 to 5.4.13, however you shouldn't have any issues on 5.4.25 - we have it running locally on PHP 5.4.26 with no issues. Thanks, and keep on optimizing!

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First off, thank you for this module! It was needed and is a great addition to the Magento ecosystem.

The question:

It seems the default install of this module is placing the Optimizely tag well below the opening <head> tag and below many other scripts and CSS files.

A well known Optimizely best practice is to ensure their tag is as close the opening <head> tag as possible. (http://support.optimizely.com/customer/portal/articles/439174-why-should-the-optimizely-snippet-be-included-in-the-head-block-)

Is true that the module does not follow this best practice by default? If so, why and won't this introduce "test flicker" risk?

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It looks like I am the third to ask this question without a solution posted. Trying to install, the error message states: CONNECT ERROR: Package community/Blue_Acorn_Optimizely 1.1.0: requires PHP version >= 5.1.0 and <= 5.4.13 current is: 5.4.19

This extension will not install. It was mentioned that you are running a more advanced version of PHP on your system, 5.4.19, but forgot to give usable information, like how.

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Answers

This issue should now be resolved with the latest module release, which supports PHP versions up to 5.6.0. Please download the latest release (version 1.1.1 at the time of the post) and let us know if you have any issues.Thanks!

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